Did anyone receive any strange wedding gifts?

Question

I don't want to come off as ungrateful, I am very thankful when anyone sends us a gift and I immediately send each one a thnk you note. I just wonder if any of you have gotten strange gifts that you didn't quite know what to do with. My mother insisted I send and old friend of hers an invite, so I did. Yesterday I received a gift from her. It appears to be a glass dog food bowl (I don't have any pets) with the word "Cincinnati" etched on the side. I lived in Cincinnati briefly as a child, when my mother met this woman but I haven't lived there or visited in at least 16 years. It just seems so strange! My mom thinks I shoud just give it to Goodwill, but I feel bad. I don't know what or when I would ever use it though! Did this happen to any of you? What did you do?

Answer 1

If you think of it as a strage gift you can't see using for a pet but can't bear to send it to good will use it for a herb pot on your windowsill (depending on the size)

fresh herbs only need a little soil and can run rampant in the garden.  Fill it with dirt and plant some chives or basil or something!  That way you might even be lucky enough to bump it off the ledge and break it whilst still being able to say you used it.

Weird gift though....

Answer 2

My sister got a strange wedding gift last year at her wedding. It was a snowglobe from Montanna. And she ddnt wnt to b ungratful so she sent a thnku card and then sold it for $10 on ebay. i recomend ebay. ppl buy nything on that site. did u no someone actually bought a 20inch frenchfry on it? so just sell it if u dnt wnt to keep it. bc if u dnt hav pets do u really need a dog food bowl

Answer 3

KEEP IT!!!!.....and use it as a white elephant gift!

Answer 4

I kind of wish I got an oddball gift like that because it's good fodder fro funny stories later. All our gifts were the typical (not complaining) money or registry items. The oddest thing we got was BBQ tools and a gift cert to a local meat market--which I thought was really clever, personally.

Answer 5

ha-ha, that reminds me of my "crazy" aunt (and I say that with love, she was a great woman) who always gave the strangest gifts, usually things she had laying around the house.  At wedding showers we would all gather around the bride and anxiously await the opening of Aunt May's gift.  Those gifts are things that you just have to have a sense of humor about.

Answer 6

Keep the gift maybe get a dog or cat you can have a gorgeus food bowl and a wonderful loving pets and then you can thank your mother's friend

Answer 7

Our friend gave us a fake dog p**p. The saddest thing is that it was our first wedding present. We kept it and throw it at people who sleep on our couch after drinking too much. But, we're young and crazy like that. I'd give the bowl to goodwill. Someone will love it and the woman who gave it to you will never know.

Answer 8

In 20 years from now, you will be able to match very few gifts with their giver...but you will never forget this one.  

I would keep this 'odd' bowl for those odd occasions such as playing bridal/baby shower games where guests have to remember what is on a tray....when your having a bunch of friends over and want to start an interesting conversation, put this bowl out filled with salsa dip and enjoy watching the reactions.  You'll get to hear a lot more weird wedding gift stories!  Lastly, maybe this lady is a physic and your dog Cincinnati is just a couple of years away, lol.

Answer 9

Send a thank-you note.  Put the bowl in the garage and use it for loose hardware... screws... etc....

or just put it in the recycling...

It doesn't sound like it is worth a trip to Goodwill... by the time you factor in the gas and time wasted...!!! :o)

Answer 10

Maybe you might consider pets someday? Just a funny thought.. OR this could become a great "Secret Santa" gift for Christmas.

Answer 11

she probably picked it out  of her closet and wrapped it up ;) with that being said, I would not worry about getting rid of the bowl unless she's a visitor in your home. If not, who would be the wiser......

I've gotten gifts over the years, not for wedding, that have come out of granny's closet and trust me, they don't even remember what they're passing out half the time so one year I just put it all in a bin for good will. I really don't need a crocheted toilet paper protecter!

Answer 12

I think in this case, Goodwill will be most greatfull :] Sometimes you just have to have a private giggle and share these things! Our wedding presents were mostly from our gift list which was lovely as we were just setting up house - but I do recall the FIVE...yes FIVE flowerpots/ vases we were given as random presents. It was quite funny as at the time, hubby and I were just renting a two-bed flat with no garden!

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Answer 13

pack it away and use it as a pet bowl later :)  or white elephant it out later.  :)  We got this (i think) joseph and mary statue thing from my aunt at my wedding...I dont even know if its joseph and mary but its all wood carved and kind of abstract.  I think she may have wanted to start our nativity set but honestly these things are really tall...and dont do much.  they are on a shelf in the spare room we enter maybe once a week :)

Answer 14

Dont give it too Goodwill !

Give it too Me !

Answer 15

We got this wine stopper that doubles as a candle holder. Doesnt make any sense to me, and it was ugly besides!

I stuck it in a drawer and while we were having a party this topic came up, so I retrieved said item and we were all laughing so hard it hurt, coming up with different uses for it (I didnt tell them what it actually was). This one guy said it was a unicorn horn, oh that was funny!

Answer 16

With my first wedding I ended up with two toasters and two electric blenders..and I held on to them...when the first one 'blew' I had the second one ...saved me having to go out and buy new ones.

No clock in the nude lady's belly figurine tho.....guess I was just lucky.

I would hang onto that strange gift.....do you have a place where your guy will empty out his pockets of loose change, keys, etc......guys will select a place, usually a piece of furniture that scratches, and out of the pockets everything comes....then it gets scattered,misplaced, etc sooooo...

...use it as his catch all bowl....either on a table by your front door, or the top of his dresser...maybe the night stand on his side of the bed.....eventually you may have a pet...consider naming him/her Cincinnati lol and you're one step ahead....or one day it can be a 'job bowl'...when hubby has a project that entails screws, washers, itty bitty parts-he can keep it on hand to catch and hold those things so they don;t get lost while the project is in progress.....

..but I'd hang on to it...even if it's just for a good laugh...good luck.

Answer 17

I received the world's ugliest vase as a gift (1st marriage_. It was doo doo color and it was simply an eye sore. (my ex-BM "C" gave it to me LOL!) . It was sooo awful that I gave it away. When "C' got married, I returned the favor and gave her a set of cabage glass bowls that were equally ugly. We laught about it afterwards, we were very young then.

Good luck

Answer 18

Someone gave us an old blender that had obviously been sitting around their garage since the 80s - while it had never been opened, the packaging was turning yellow! I have no idea what to do with it.

Re-gifts always seem to find their way to me. My great uncle and his wife once sent me used tea light holders for Christmas...complete with used tea lights! That was years ago but it's still funny to think about now.